Quotes by Herman Melville

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,...

#Action

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities

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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only...

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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and...

#Anger

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words...

#Books

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier...

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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding...

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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but...

#Death

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

#Death

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real...

#Death

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men;...

#Forgiveness, #Living

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he...

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